A look at how one high school is introducing programming into all its classes, even unrelated subjects. Some of these are eyebrow-raise-worthy at first glance:

Brown says she’s considering a poetry unit using code language. […] Tina Farrell, who heads the Performing Arts department, is interested in experimenting with live-coding performances, where students would use software to compose and perform music with scripts they write.

But just imagine if these worked.

Also, new to me, linked from the article: TurtleBits, an interactive turtle learning tool. Still one of my favourite intro programming resources.

You may have read, or recall, this New York Times article called Snow Fall from last year — click through if it’s new to you, it’s worth your time. It’s a longform HTML5 extravaganza, with carefully-placed stunning videos and animated infographics. They weren’t the first — Pitchfork, Wired, Guardian, and others followed suit since (and every single such beautifully crafted piece is festering in my Pocket queue).

I’m awfully curious about what the new batch of iOS apps will look like when iOS 7 is released in a couple of months’ time — I doubt designers will be happy to just take on the default look (white background-blur navigation bar, coloured labels, flatter tab bars), so I’m waiting to see what a custom theme, that still manage to fit in iOS 7, looks like. (Much like how we ended up with coloured, textured navigation bars that kept the basic shapes in iOS 1 – 6.)

Consensus on this page seems to be: fewer textures, solid-colour navigation bars with blurry (“frosted glass”) backgrounds, elements that go edge-to-edge, and even more blurry backgrounds.

We took Tiger Airways up to Bangkok on Monday, and flew back by “tigerair” on Thursday. I quite like the playfulness of the new logo — look at that little wink the i’s are doing! — but I keep trying to pronounce the name as written.